Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: In foreign language learning, collocation usage has a central importance since it contributesto generate native-like productions; however, researches have shown that foreign languagelearners have problems using collocations. Although several studies have produced estimates ofcollocation in foreign language, there is still insufficient data of collocations that Turkish as aforeign language (TFL) learners use. Also, there has been little discussion about the differencesand similarities of lexical collocation usages of TFL learners and native Turkish speakers. Thisstudy investigates the use of collocations in the academic written corpora of 30 Turkish learnersin Germany and 40 university students in Türkiye who are native speakers of Turkish. Definingcollocations is a complicated process as the definitions and classifications are different inliterature, that’s why, for each collocation pair the TDK dictionary and Turkish National Corpus(Version 3, 2023, July) was used to define them separately. For the present study, the criteriawhich were adopted from the literature regarding how to make lists of lexical collocations weredetermined from a mixed method perspective, namely both frequency and phraseology method.The results show although TFL learners are hesitant to use collocations and prefer to use highfrequencycollocations they display similar collocation behaviours as well.
Source: Milli Eğitim Dergisi
Authors: Özgür Şen Bartan, Ayşe Tetik
Institutions: Kırıkkale University, Freie Universität Berlin
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7225015012